On Thu, 14 May 2015 15:44:20 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 15:41:03 on
Thu, 14 May 2015, e27002 aurora remarked:
The slogan was once "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work".

I take it that's been abandoned since "a good wage" is by no means the same
thing.

On the "excellent, good, fair, poor" scale, surely we can improve on
fair! :-)

That is the expression that came to mind. I happen to believe it cuts
both ways. The employees at my local SWT station do an outstanding
job. They should

not?

Yes, as in the corrected version.

have to scrimp to survive.

That sounds like an argument to increase the minimum wage, because
plenty of hard-working(tm) people only get that much.

Government should interfere with private contracts only where
absolutely necessary.

I suspect that most jobs on the railway
(except perhaps tube station
ticket office staff)

Now we may observe an enormous public sector folly in real time. Only
a public body could be this stupid. Pity the poor tourist arriving in
London in need of guidance on using TfL services.

are fairly secure, which should also count for
quite a lot.

Employment longevity does not put food in one's children's' stomachs.